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Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians. He foregrounds the often-ignored ideas of these artists, analyzing them in the context of meanings circulating around jazz, as well as in relationship to broader currents in African American thought. Porter examines several crucial moments in the history of jazz: the formative years of the 1920's and 1930's; the emergence of bebop; the political and experimental projects of the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's; and the debates surrounding Jazz at Lincoln Center under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. Louis Armstrong, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Wadada Leo Smith, Mary Lou Williams, and Reggie Workman also feature prominently in this book. The wealth of information Porter uncovers shows how these musicians have expressed themselves in print; actively shaped the institutional structures through which the music is created, distributed, and consumed, and how they aligned themselves with other artists and activists, and how they were influenced by forces of class and gender. What Is This Thing Called Jazz? challenges interpretive orthodoxies by showing how much black jazz musicians have struggled against both the racism of the dominant culture and the prescriptive definitions of racial authenticity propagated by the music's supporters, both white and black.

Jazz --- African American jazz musicians. --- African Americans --- Jazz musicians, African American --- Jazz musicians --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- 1920s. --- 1930s. --- african american musicians. --- african american. --- american music. --- anthony braxton. --- black artists. --- black musicians. --- class. --- cultural studies. --- duke ellington. --- essay collection. --- experimental jazz. --- experimental music. --- gender. --- jazz music. --- jazz musicians. --- louis armstrong. --- marion brown. --- music analysis. --- music genres. --- music history. --- music theory. --- musical. --- musicians. --- social class. --- social studies.

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"With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory social and cultural transformations, and seeking to counter inadequate and often pejorative accounts of the people and place that give New Orleans its soul. Focusing for the most part on the city's African American community, New Orleans Suite is a story about people: how bad things have happened to them in the long and short run, how they have persevered by drawing upon and transforming their cultural practices, and what they can teach us about citizenship, politics, and society."--Publisher's description.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 --- Popular music --- Music, Popular --- Music, Popular (Songs, etc.) --- Pop music --- Popular songs --- Popular vocal music --- Songs, Popular --- Vocal music, Popular --- Music --- Cover versions --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Hurricane Katrina --- african american. --- american community. --- anthropology. --- artists. --- audience. --- biopolitical. --- brass band. --- citizenship. --- city life. --- congo square. --- creole. --- creolization. --- crowded cities. --- cultural practices. --- cultural scene. --- cultural transformations. --- cultural. --- engaging. --- entertainment industry. --- historical. --- history. --- hurricane katrina. --- jazz music. --- music history. --- music. --- new orleans. --- page turner. --- performing arts. --- pop culture. --- regional studies. --- social issues. --- society. --- sociology. --- us cities. --- visual evidence.

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Sound Changes responds to a need in improvisation studies for more work that addresses the diversity of global improvisatory practices and argues that by beginning to understand the particular, material experiences of sonic realities that are different from our own, we can address the host of other factors that are imparted or sublimated in performance. These factors range from the intimate affect associated with a particular performer's capacity to generate a distinctive "voicing," or the addition of an unexpected sonic intervention only possible with one particular configuration of players in a specific space and time. Through a series of case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, Sound Changes offers readers an introduction to a range of musical expressions across the globe in which improvisation plays a key role and the book demonstrates that improvisation is a vital site for the production of emergent social relationships and meanings. As it does this work, Sound Changes situates the increasingly transcultural dimensions of improvised music in relation to emergent networks and technologies, changing patterns of migration and immigration, shifts in the political economy of music, and other social, cultural, and economic factors. Improvisation studies is a recently developed, but growing, interdisciplinary field of study. The discipline--which has only truly come into focus in the early part of the twenty-first century--has been building a lexicon of key terms and developing assumptions about core practices. Yet, the full breadth of improvisatory practices has remained a vexed, if not impossibly ambitious, subject of study. This volume offers a step forward in the movement away from critical tendencies that tend to homogenize and reduce practices and vocabularies in the name of the familiar.

Improvisation (Music) --- Multiculturalism in art. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Social aspects.

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Beaux-arts --- Peinture (Art) --- Schilderkunst --- Schone kunsten --- Goya (Francisco) --- Goya (Francisco) --- 75 (Goya, F.)